Keep things simple...:(

[Grubb]

I know this has been said before , what happened to a tv you can just turn on and watch, radio's with on off buttons, cameras that just point and shoot? You know simple stuff like, want the volume to go up? Then just turn up the volume with the button or turn it down the same way, why does everything have 15 steps to get to the simple things. I know tech has come along way but me , I like like just turning something on and it works, push off and it goes off, push volume up or dwn and it does, i, i don't like having to have a 4 year college degree to turn on a TV...

[Lotech]

I know what you mean. If I had to set any of the controls on my TV without a remote, I'd be totally lost. My wife actually has a stereo (boom box) that doesn't have an on off switch. You have to use the remote. Go figure.

[Lew]

I'm certainly glad for the advances in technology, but it seems like they're using those 4 year grads to think up ways to complicate things that oughta be simple. I guess they need employment too. Isn't much else left. Find you one of those, and keep him on retainer for when you want to turn on the set.

[PA Dave]

Amen Grubb. Amen.

We bought an air conditioner and discovered it came with a remote. How lazy do I need to be to need a remote to work the air conditioner??

When the boys finally leave home I don't know how we'll get these things to work.

[Uncle Jesse]

A couple of years back I had a Dodge Magnum company car. The remote was one piece with the key. The battery when dead and when I tried to replace the battery managed to screw up the connection. For a week or so I had to open the car with the key. Guess how many doors have a lock that can be operated with a metal key - ONE. Let someone pull up tight next to the drivers side and you are had. I have noticed most cars are the same way.

But living in Mississippi without air conditioning, or central heat until I was about grown and having an out house when I was a kid, I don't have a lot to fuss about now days. There are about a million drivers that get in your way regularly around Atlanta, but all of the roads are paved. No muddy gravel roads. Besides driving around with a few hundred thousand of your friends and neighbors keeps you reflexes sharp.

[fishdog54]

PaDave,

Heck, I'm hoping to get a remote for this laptop! LOL!!! Yep, even my fans have remotes. Does make it nice though, when your in bed, and you need to adjust it (the fan!).

Grubb - Some of these new coffee pots are insane. Mine just has your on/off switch, and I believe it still can make coffee - whooed ah thunk it???

Best regards, Dave S.

[Bass_Bug]

Someone mentioned remotes on fans. I bought a ceiling fans with a remote a few years ago to replace a ceiling light. Since the wall switch could not turn on the fan and leave the light off, I just screwed the mounting cradle for the remote to the wall by the switch by the door. kinda makes me wonder what real need is for a remote on the ceiling fan anyway.

Laptops? I had an HP laptop a few years that DID have a remote for the music controls when playing music on the computer.

I do program my coffee pot to start brewing 10 min before my alarm clock goes off in the morning. THAT is the best feature on a coffee pot, since the MR. Coffee drip machines came out 35 or so years ago.

The building where I work, they came around a few weeks ago and started removing most of the wall clocks. They said there's a clock on every computer, most of teh office phones and for the people who where watches, have cell phones. They got tired of changing batteries in the clocks and the time twice forward and back twice a year.

Automatic bathrooms? Check this out! I was in a rest stop on the highway (dont remember where) where the faucets were automatic water turn, automatic soap dispenser AND a hand dryer all at the sink. Ok, now THAT really is efficient and probably less mess in dripping water from the sink to the dyer or paper towels. Of course the urinals had automatic flush. But heres something for dads to freak out their kids with: Family trip, we stop at a rest area for a pit stop. My 17 yr old son and I are standing at the urinals (no one else in there) and I said " you know how when you get real close to a camera you look real big?" He says ",uh...yea?". I said "well, stand real close to the urinal so the camera behind that little black window.." (Infared flush sensor) "..will make it look longer." The split second of the thought that was true mortified him. The look was priceless before he started laughing.

[Byron Zuehlsdorff]

Well, as for the shacknasties, Get to go feed the cows tomorrow, maybe get a jackrabbit for new tying fur. I agree with a lot of the "new" techo stuff. I don't like some of it either. The first phone I remember was a hand crank one on a party line. Our ring was one long, two short rings. There were four phones in the camp, two in the office, one in our house, Dad was lead foreman, one in the assistant foreman, And I forgot, one in the guest bunkhouse. Bass Bug, you are BBAAADDDD!!!! I LIKE IT!!